East Hancock is a primarily residential neighbourhood in Hancock, Michigan, though it also includes the easternmost block of Quincy Street, the main street of Hancock's downtown.
East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District
The East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district which is a substantial subsection of the East Hancock neighborhood. The District is bounded by Front Street, Dunston Street, Vivian Street, Mason Avenue, and Cooper Avenue, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The majority of the residences were built between 1890 and 1920.
History
The East Hancock neighborhood was formerly characterized by a number of deep ravines originally covered with wooden sidewalks that were filled in by the Dakota Heights Land Company; the neighbourhood was then "subdivided into residential lots". Development in the neighborhood began in the 1890s and surged in the early 1900s, when a rush of prosperity increased the number of relatively wealthy people in Hancock. It is noted for many large houses in the Queen Anne, Renaissance and shingle styles .
The construction of the Canal Crossings Condominium by Moyle Inc. has obstructed some of the view of the neighborhood from the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, one of the things for which the project has been criticized.
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File:East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District 2009b.jpg|Mason Avenue Streetscene
File:East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District 2009c.jpg|Harris Avenue Streetscene
File:East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District 2009d.jpg|Cooper Avenue Streetscene
File:East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District 2009e.jpg|House at Cooper and East
File:East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District 2009f.jpg|House at Cooper and Center
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Sources
- East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood, Circa 1880 - 1920 (Eleanor A. Alexander, Hancock, Michigan: 1984)